What's the difference between cartesianism and doctrine?

Cartesianism


Definition:

  • (n.) The philosophy of Descartes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In naive Cartesianism this assertion starts out from the assumption that illness may develop solely from physical causes.
  • (2) We have determined experimentally the temperature dependence of human erythrocyte spectrin dimer intrinsic viscosity at shear rates 8-12 s-1 using a Cartesian diver viscometer.
  • (3) Modern physics has put in question the validity of its own metaphysical basis, namely the belief in Natural Law, and modern biology has been unable to come to terms with the Cartesian dualism of body and soul.
  • (4) Such dependence on proximity is appropriate for the vestibular reflex, which must transform signals from Cartesian to polar coordinates, but not for the visual reflex, which operates entirely in polar coordinates.
  • (5) We extended the model to binocular viewing conditions, which allows for a description of the visual axes in Cartesian coordinates in relation to the head.
  • (6) By CNDO (Complete Neglect of Differential Overlap) molecular orbital method, interatomic distances and XYZ cartesian corrdinates were calculated in five polymorphs (monohydrated, alpha, two beta, and gamma) of sulfanilamide.
  • (7) The events in Pavlov's laboratory lead toward the postulation of a new paradigm that rejected the Cartesians conceptualization of the reflex as a mechanistic response to stimuli by replacing it with the Darwinian notion of the organism's adaptation to the environmental conditions.
  • (8) A schematic representation of the organization of the programme includes feeding of information in the form of Cartesian co-ordinates; the geometric determination of the points for calculating the base doses, the calculation of the strength of the base dose, the reference dose, and doses at particular points in the central plane, and finally, tracing the isodoses.
  • (9) Cartesian dualism has become untenable in view of recent neuropsychology but it still obstructs our management of functional patients.
  • (10) Every profile was normalized by subdividing in 120 points and standardized by positioning the sagittal line of skull vault profile parallel to the ordinate axis of a Cartesian system.
  • (11) Also, this Cartesian representation may be common to many orienting movements, yet it appears to differ from the coordinate systems controlling other movement types such as stabilization or phasic movements.
  • (12) The main feature is the capability to draw graphs in a Cartesian coordinate system.
  • (13) The co-ordinates can be used in more conventional analytic ways in the same way as cartesian co-ordinates.
  • (14) This program provides the printout of the Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates of all atoms of a double-stranded helix of nucleic acid in either A, A' or B conformation with any specified base sequence up to 50 nucleotides or longer.
  • (15) The radial thrombus length is then measured at 5 degrees increments and plotted on Cartesian coordinates as a function of polar coordinate.
  • (16) The oxygen consumption of these vessels, determined with the Cartesian diver microrespirometer, was found to be size dependent.
  • (17) Comparison is based on the time span 5 to 15 ps and considering cartesian coordinates, dihedral angles, H-bond length, and accessible surface area.
  • (18) Performance appears to be consistent with decision processes based upon the least squares minimum distance classifier (LSMDC) operating over a cartesian feature space consisting of the real (even) and imaginary (odd) components of the signals.
  • (19) The 2D spectral response profiles of most of the remaining cells were neither polar nor Cartesian separable, because the response profiles were elongated about an axis of symmetry that did not pass through the origin.
  • (20) The sampling techniques we consider are uniform distribution of points on a regular Cartesian grid and random selection of points.

Doctrine


Definition:

  • (n.) Teaching; instruction.
  • (n.) That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
  • (2) "They have a retaliatory doctrine," Salah argued of the police, whose brutality was a major cause of Egypt's 2011 uprising , but who have become more popular after backing Morsi's overthrow.
  • (3) The history of the reception of Darwin's doctrine shows that, as a rule, older scientists with such religious worldviews would not support Darwin.
  • (4) But it was predictably a thin reed on which to build a doctrine.
  • (5) This review considers the biophysics of penetrating missile wounds, highlights some of the more common misconceptions and seeks to reconcile the conflicting and confusing management doctrines that are promulgated in the literature-differences that arise not only from two scenarios, peace and war, but also from misapprehensions of the wounding process.
  • (6) Our commitment to liberty is America's tradition - declared at our founding; affirmed in Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms; asserted in the Truman Doctrine and in Ronald Reagan's challenge to an evil empire.
  • (7) She suggests that the doctrine of 'bad faith breach of contract' might appropriately be extended into this new area to provide a powerful means by which aggrieved patients and payers can hold physicians personally accountable for abusive self-referrals.
  • (8) Changes in the evaluation protocol could preclude existing impediments to provision of information and patient autonomy; however, certain intrapsychic issues must be recognized as ongoing clinical realities to be addressed as the doctrine of informed consent continues to evolve.
  • (9) Official military doctrine in many countries is that these laws apply to cyberspace as they do to all other domains of warfare.
  • (10) Even more pointedly, he attacked the common Republican philosophical refuge of the doctrine of unintended consequences, or, as he put it, “We can’t do anything because we don’t yet know everything.” “The bullshitters have gotten pretty lazy,” he said, and the previous six hours of debate coverage on Fox News could have told you as much.
  • (11) For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths."
  • (12) Today the overestimation of human understanding is reflected in a dogmatic adherence to specific professional or idealogically biased doctrines and in the dubious ideal of a purely empirical science with its limited applicability to mankind.
  • (13) This is accomplished by using the doctrine to enhance patients' education and understanding of their orthodontic problems, the benefits of corrective therapy, any risks associated therewith, and viable treatment alternatives.
  • (14) In his attempt to justify the unjustifiable, Mr Grieve has clutched at a fragile constitutional doctrine and adopted a deeply dubious legal course.
  • (15) Chaffetz’s proposal might in fact be in violation of the common-law Public Trust Doctrine , which requires that the federal government keep and manage national resources for all Americans.
  • (16) In the US, the concept of the mature minor doctrine has been developed.
  • (17) This article also addresses recent developments in the wake of the Benzene Case and their implications for benzene regulations following the "significant risk" doctrine in that case.
  • (18) Aftergood said the Glomar doctrine was no longer appropriate.
  • (19) We talked mostly about Nation of Islam doctrine, with some questions about the military draft, Folley, and boxing in general thrown in.
  • (20) This standard of proof and some of its contingent common law doctrines are discussed, with references to several judicial opinions from cases which involved contested suicides.

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